[Vision2020] [RESENT with lyrics] Christmas in Fallujah

[Tom Hansen]

>From the Army Times at www.ArmyTimes.com

"Christmas in Fallujah" by Billy Joel and Cass Dillon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an7v6I2Bruo

"Christmas In Fallujah" 
Words & Music By Billy Joel 
Preformed By Cass Dillon 
2007 

It's Evening In the Desert 
I'm Tired and I'm cold 
But I'm just a solder 
I do what I am told 

We Came with the Crusaders 
to save the holy land 
It's Christmas In Fallujah 
and no one gives a damn 

And I just got your letter 
And this is what I read you said 

I'm fading from your memory 
so I'm just as good as dead 

We are the armies of the empire 
We are the legionnaires of Rome 

It's Christmas In Fallujah 
and we ain't never coming home 

We came to bring these people freedom 
we came to fight the infidel 

there is no justice in the desert 
Because there is no god in hell 

They say osama's in the mountains 
deep in a cave near Pakistan 

But there's a sea of blood in Baghdad 
A sea of oil in the sand 

Between the Tigris and Euphrates 
another day comes to an end 

it's Christmas In Fallujah 
Peace on earth goodwill to men 

it's Christmas In Fallujah 
hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

it's Christmas In Fallujah 
hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

it's Christmas In Fallujah 
hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

it's Christmas In Fallujah 
hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

Merry Christmas from Fallujah 
hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

Merry Christmas from Fallujah 
hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

hallelujah hallelujah 
(hoorah) 

hallelujah hallelujah 
Hoorah!

Who was wrong who was right? 
When It's Christmas in Fallujah

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New Billy Joel song inspired by Iraq troops

Staff report
Posted : Friday Dec 14, 2007 14:44:31 EST
   
Vietnam inspired Billy Joel to write "Goodnight Saigon." Iraq has prompted
"Christmas in Fallujah," an emotionally charged commentary on the state of
affairs in the Middle East and the "sense of alienation" deployed U.S.
troops feel from those back home.

"I think that a lot of people are starting to feel like they're forgotten,"
Joel told Rolling Stone in a wide-ranging Q&A posted Dec. 10 on the
magazine's Web site.

The song, on sale since Dec. 4 on Apple's iTunes, is performed by Cass
Dillon, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter. Motivated by correspondence he's
received from troops stationed in Iraq, Joel, 58, said on his Web site that
the song needed a stronger, more youthful voice.

Joel will donate proceeds to Homes for Our Troops, which builds houses for
severely injured veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dubbed an anti-war song by some, Joel told Rolling Stone simply that it's a
story about the troops.

"People can take it any way they want," he said during the interview. "I
don't get up on a soapbox and do political messages. I believe in talking
about the human being, and the conditions humans find themselves in."

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil
and steady dedication of a lifetime." 

--Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.